1000 Platitudes
1,000 Platitudes is a large-scale photographic intervention project. It is comprised of photomontages and a video with 1,000 words or expressions commonly used to promote globalised cities to potential investors, such as "open", "modern", "clean", "multicultural" and "cosmopolitan", for example. To make these images, a powerful projector (110,000 ANSI lumens of intensity for images of up to 70 x 70 metres) was placed on a 12-ton truck with a generator. This mobile platform toured the Austrian city of Linz projecting onto all types of buildings: shopping malls, apartment blocks, banks, castles, churches, industrial tanks and others. At each site a letter of the alphabet was projected and then photographed before the authorities were notified. Sources of reference for this project include Etiénne-Gaspar Robertson's Phantascope (1797), a phantasmagoria projector on wheels; Krzysztof Wodiczko's deconstructivist projections, and the ShotgunTV project by Contained/Timesup (1995).
| Name in spanish: | 1000 Usos Tópicos |
| Year of Creation: | 2003 |
| Technique: | Three Lambda C-Prints mounted on aluminium frames, and documentary video, 25 minutes long |
| Dimensions: | 300 x 120 centimeters each (3 panels) |
| Edition: | 5 copies + 1 AP in English 5 copies + 1 AP in Spanish |
| Keywords: | database, indoor, outdoor, print, projection, site-specific, video. |
| Collections: | Cisneros Fontanals Foundation (Miami), Speyer Family Collection (NYC), Colección/Fundación Jumex (Mexico City) and private collectors |
